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Harvard admissions are, of course, not a strictly merit-based matter. Students from diverse geographic, ethnic and racial backgrounds; legacies; and, especially, athletes, have better chances of getting admitted than the general pool, and, beyond that, admission is a matter of chance. College admissions officers often say that they could have easily accepted 2,000 other applicants and had an equally impressive class. Harvard is a false meritocracy, skewed and somewhat random. With that knowledge, one would expect students to show more humility, an acknowledgement of the imperfections inherent in the school’s constant applications and rejections...
That is not to say that athletes who lose someone or become ill do not merit sympathy. On the contrary, it poignantly illustrates their mortality, a vulnerability that the casualfan seems to usually ignore...
Tuesday was the Jewish New Year, a day simultaneously of forgiveness and accountability, when the Books of Life and Death are open. May we merit inscription in the Book of Life...
...Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, [and] his conduct has been dishonest,” Harvard’s brief concluded...
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